At least 60 killed in wave of bombings

September 30, 2005

Three suicide attackers detonated car bombs nearly simultaneously in a town north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 60 people and wounding 70 others, officials said. In Ramadi, the military said a roadside bomb killed five U.S. soldiers.

TERROR DANGER: Al Qaeda poses a real danger to the freewheeling countries of the Persian Gulf, which may be its next target, and must be tackled seriously, a government-run think tank in Dubai warns.

CHINA BANS TV SLANG: To millions of Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese speech is what's cool. But new rules handed down by China's broadcasting authority, which sets the tone for nearly everything, have stipulated that TV hosts always use Mandarin Chinese and stop using Hong Kong or Taiwanese slang.

FAMILY: POLICE LIED: The family of a Brazilian man killed by London police, who said they mistook him for a terrorist, watched videotapes of the shooting while meeting with independent investigators Thursday. They said the tapes prove police lied about what happened. Undercover police shot and killed Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, on a subway train July 22.